Mrs. Rebecca Joan Mills, age 87, formerly of Kent, Ohio, passed away on Sunday, May 21, 2017 at Vitas Hospice in Duluth, Georgia. A memorial service will be held on July 14, 2017 at 11:00 am at Hopewell United Methodist Church with interment at Georgia National Cemetery in Canton, Georgia. The Rev. Steve Barnum will officiate.
Mrs. Mills was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania to the late Roxanne Johnson Witherow and Henry Calvin Witherow. She attended Penn State University. She was a homemaker and was a member of Kent Presbyterian Church in Kent, Ohio. She was a member of the Red Hat Society, and enjoyed bridge, crafts such as knitting, crocheting, needlepoint and sewing clothes for her grandchildren. She enjoyed traveling and spent several years in Europe with her family.
Mrs. Mills was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Alfred Morrow Mills, and daughter, Kathryn Ann Mills. She is survived by three daughters and sons-in-law: Rebecca Mills Brady (Bob), Holly Mills Richeson (Steve), and Beth Mills Taylor (Tad) as well as grandchildren Randi Beth Brady, Erin Michelle Brady, Matt Richeson (Natalie), Hannah Taylor and Zak Taylor
Those wishing to send online condolences to the family may do so at littledavenport.com
Little & Davenport Funeral Home and Crematory of Gainesville is in charge of arrangements.